Effelder
Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria).

Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria). It flows into the Froschgrundsee, which is drained by the Itz, near Schönstädt.
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Worth seeing in and around Effelder
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Froschgrundsee
Froschgrundsee, also known as Schönstädtspeicher, is a retention basin to protect the city of Coburg in Bavaria from the flooding of the Itz, Effelder, and the Grümpen. It lies in the municipality of Rödental in Upper Franconia.
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Getting to Effelder
- Airports
- Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 70 km · Nuremberg (NUE), 95 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 135 km
- Erfurt → Effelder62 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · €8–11
- Nuremberg → Effelder207 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €27–38
- Schkeuditz → Effelder138 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €19–27
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Effelder
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Effelder. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextBamberg and Nuremberg are both good destinations for a day trip from Coburg.
From Wikivoyage: Coburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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- Frankenblickmunicipality in Thuringia, Germany3.1 km
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